Vegetable-cutter.



H. PLAGER.

VEGETABLE CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED 0017, 1912.

Patented May 13, 1913.

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HARRIET PLAGER, OF BROCEK, NEBRASKA.

VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

Application filed October 7, 1912. Serial ,No. 724,373.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRIET PLAGER, 'a

' citizen, of the United States, residing at Brock, in the county of Nemaha and State of Nebraska, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Cutters, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to cutters and.

more particularly to a type of cutter for cabbage, potatoes or in fact any vegetable or fruit it is desired to cut into slivers ,or strips.

The principal object is to produce a cutting means'for cabbage that will avoid the necessity of chopping after slicing.-

A further object is to provide an adjustable cutter wherein the slivers or strips may be made uniformly large or small as desired or the device simply adjusted to "cause a' mixture of'slivers'or strips from the maximum to the minimum in size.

' rality of rows, the said rows being parallel transversely but staggered longitudinally and being in two groups having a shifting space 3 between the rows. The cutting' plate is further provided with openings 4 and longitudinal slots 5, the latter being for the purpose of receiving the supporting means 6 for the superimposed adjustable rack 7. 'Beneath the cut-ting plateand normally parallel thereto is an under plate 8 integral .with the superimposed adjustable rack 7 and the supporting means 6. Downward flanged portions 9'are integral with the saidunder plate 8 and have secured at suitable points lo'cking means 10,. the'said means extending through slots 11 in "the of a non-corrosive nature, the several parts being stamped out by dies and shaped by sides of an angular bounding and stiffening strip 12. 13 is a hole for hanging the cutter on a nail.

The device will probably be made of metal formers.

I may conclude .to manufacture the Fig. 2' is a longitudinal 'quantities by justable rack 7, the supporting means 6, the

portion 9 of one piece of plate, or I may make the plate 8 and the downward flanged portion 9 of one piece and the rack 7 and the the two elements in any'workmanlike manner. I shall probably prefer the former, in a which case, after the sheet of metal is blanked the sides will be flanged downwardly at right angles for the portion 9; the plate 8 will be split and the connecting means 6 upset; the upset tongues or connecting means will be. passed up through the longitudinal, slots 5 of the plate 2, and the rack portion 7 formed by hand or machine Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Mjay 13, 19 13,

under plate 8 and the downward flanged supporting means 6 of another, and secure flanging. In case I adopt the latter means of manufacture, after the plate 8 is downwardly flanged for the portion Q-and the tongues or connecting means 6 are secured to the said plate 8, the former will be passediup through the 'slots 5 and flanged over as shown in a manner similar to that described above. The manner of adjustlng the superimposed rack with respect to the cutting plate 2 will be by simply loosening the wing-nuts or locking means 10, raising or lowering the plate 8 by reason of the slots 11 to the dewred point, and recla-inping the-v parts by set-ting up on the said locking means 11. v u The operation. of cutting, with cabbageor other wegetable, is obvious; theflsizejof.

slivers may be regulated by elevatingordepressing the superimposed rack, thus expos ing a greater or less portion of the cutting edges; The slivers may all be made uniform by arranging the under plateparallel with the cutting plate, or they may be made mixed from the maximum to the minimum in size by setting the, lower plate at an angle to the cutting plate, thus exposing more of the cutting edge at one end of the cutter than at the other. In running the vegetable over the cutter after the first group of cutting edges has been passed, a

slight turn" of the vvrist while in the free space 3-vvhich I have 0 lled the shifting 'space, causes a better cut-ing'eflect when passing over the second group ofcutters;

In some instances 1n the manufacture of the device .I may conclude to omit the adjustable rack' for the sake of a cheaper grade of cutter. The price of manufacture however, will be ver slight when made in blanking and formingdies I will of course claim the right to use any material or to alter the arrangement, size or proportions, or in 'fact to make any slight changes in the preferred form here shown as long as I keep within the scope of the annexed claim.

I claim:

1. A cutting means for vegetables comprising a plurality of upset cutting edges disposed upon a plate and integral therewith, and'a ck disposed above, and normally paralle to the cutting plate, the said rack being adjustable vertically.

2. A cutter having a; plurality of up-setsemicircular cutting edges disposed upon av plate and integral therewitln the said outting edges being disposed in a plurality of rows, the said rows being parallel transversely but staggered longitudinally, the

said plurality of rows being in two groups,

' a shifting space between the groups, and a rack disposed above and normally parallel to the cutting plate, the said rack being adj ustable vertically.

3. A cutter having a plurality of up-set cutting edges disposed upon a plate and integral therewith, the saidcutting edges being disposed in a plurality of rows parallel transversely but staggered longitudinally, said rows being in two groups, a shifting space betweenthe groups and a rack disposed above and normally parallel to the cutting plate, an under plate and connecting means between the superimposed racltfand the said under plate, the said rack, under plateand'connecting means being adjustable 'verti'callv, and means for fixedly securing the same in any position of adjustment.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of, two witnesses.

HARRIET PLAGER. Vitnesses H. B. VILLAns, \V. A. DOOLI'ITLE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). 0. 

